Perhaps One Quotes
79 quotes by 70 authors
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The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
— William Meade
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one…
— Madeleine Stowe
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Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of…
— Al Barry
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As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is…
— Vito Fossella
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
— Jane Austen
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Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Raúl is a born goal-scorer. He was always in the right place at the right time. He was a great professional – one of the…
— Mauricio Cienfuegos
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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man…
— Georges Bataille
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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
— Joseph Brodsky
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It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been…
— Marston Bates
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Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,
— Pope Francis
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Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it…
— Otto Robert Frisch
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A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will…
— Primo Levi
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To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can…
— Ben Marcus
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Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two…
— King Edward VIII
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It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which…
— Michael O'Donoghue
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Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
— Igor Babailov
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